World Cup dream begins: Argentina arrive at camp in Kansas City | OneFootball

The World Cup dream is underway. The Argentina national team arrived in the United States: flight AR1978 (a number that is more than symbolic) landed in Kansas this Sunday around midday to begin its training camp for the 2026 World Cup. Minutes later, it arrived at the Origin Hotel, where it will be based during the World Cup, which begins next June 11.

Gerónimo Rulli, Nicolás Tagliafico, Valentín Barco, Nicolás Paz, Julián Álvarez, Enzo Fernández, Nicolás González, Gonzalo Montiel, Leonardo Balerdi, Giovani Lo Celso, Nicolás Otamendi, Nahuel Molina, Cristian Romero, José Manuel López, Leandro Paredes, Giuliano Simeone, Exequiel Palacios, and Thiago Almada were part of the delegation that departed from Buenos Aires and is already at the complex.

Other players will join the camp directly in the coming hours. Among them are Lionel Messi (captain and team legend) and Rodrigo De Paul, Inter Miami players in MLS. Lisandro Martínez and Dibu Martínez, who play in the Premier League, are also already traveling from England. Training will begin early Monday morning.

The Argentina national team will train at the Sporting KC Training Centre, home of Sporting Kansas City. The facility, opened in 2018, is located between the Kansas and Missouri rivers in the city’s metropolitan area, with several soccer fields. Geographically, it is in the central-eastern part of the United States, and climatically it is very unstable at this time of year, with heat, humidity, and the possibility of strong storms.

The hotel where the squad is staying is the Origin, where renovations are being completed these days that the team will officially open, including a huge additional gym. Twenty minutes from the training center, it has views of the Missouri River and is located in the central urban area, so it is also expected to become a meeting point with fans. It is new as well: construction of its main building dates back to 2023.

On Friday they will travel to Texas, where on Saturday they will face Honduras in College Station in the first warm-up match. On Sunday they will continue training in Texas, and on Monday they will head to Alabama—even farther east—for Tuesday the 9th’s test in Auburn against Iceland.

That same day, the group will return to Kansas to keep working until its World Cup debut on Tuesday, June 16, against Algeria in that same city. Against Austria on Monday the 22nd, the action will move to Arlington, Texas, and there will also be an immediate return to the Kansas bunker. On Saturday the 27th, against Jordan, the same setting will be repeated, and it remains to be seen, since it is a late-night match, whether they will take the charter in the early hours of that morning or spend the night there.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇪🇸 here.